Bungie’s New Marathon Game Has an Amazing Short Film

After a decade focusing solely on its ongoing shared world shooter Destiny, Bungie is reviving its old sci-fi shooter series Marathon. As part of the game’s official unveiling on Saturday, the developer released a cinematic short that may be one of the coolest videos of 2025. Written and directed by Spanish animator Alberto Mielgo—best known for Love, Death, & Robots and art director for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse—the eight-minute video lays out the intriguing, violent, and more than a little unsettling sci-fi world of this new Marathon. As it opens, something…weird happens on the planet Tau Ceti IV. Some colonists are crushed by satellite debris from a meteor shower, others die where they stand in gruesome fashion. Even creepier is that we see these deaths span across several decades, from 2794 to 2812 and 2827. We then jump ahead to 2893, where cybernetic beings—former humans who have machine bodies crafted by cybernetic silkworms—are looting the colony for anything they can ... Read full article.